Carroll County IN Archives Biographies.....Landes, William J. 1852 - 
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Author: John C. Odell (1916)

WILLIAM J. LANDES.

   The success which has attended the efforts of William J. Landes, an
enterprising farmer of Carrollton township, and the present trustee of the
township, is the direct result of well-applied industry, careful management and
the sincere interest which he takes in all matters which have to do with the
public welfare. Naturally his election to the important office of township
trustee is a striking evidence of the high regard in which he is held by the
people of Carrollton township, this county.

   William J. Landes, the proprietor of a beautiful farm of one hundred and
sixty acres situated seven miles northeast of Flora, is a native of Carrollton
township, born on May 22, 1852. He is the son of John and Julia A. (Dumkin)
Landes, the former of whom was born near Zanesville, Ohio, and who was the son
of Frederick Landes, who, with his father, came to Indiana and located in
Carroll county. Frederick Landes lived in Carrollton township until his death.
His wife died on the same farm as her husband. They were members of the Dunkard
church. John Landes was a young man when his parents emigrated to Carroll
county. He received a good common-school education and by his marriage to Julia
A. Dumkin became the father of six children, three sons and three daughters. The
daughters are all deceased. Mary J. was the wife of J. M. Hendrix; Miranda died
when a year old, and the youngest daughter died in infancy. The living children,
the sons, are William J., the subject of this sketch; Dr. B. F. Landes, of Black
Mountain, North Carolina, and Oscar L., a stock dealer of Flora.

   Having been born on the old home farm in Carrollton township, William J.
Landes spent his early years on a farm and at the proper age entered the
district school in his neighborhood. He attended school during the winter months
until he was eighteen years old and then became a student at the Battle Ground
Institute. Subsequently he attended the National Normal School at Lebanon, Ohio,
and Valparaiso University, at Valparaiso. For twenty-seven years he was a
teacher in the schools of Carroll county, and in all this time missed only one
year of continuous service.

   On September 27, 1879, William J. Landes was married to Susan M. McCain, a
native of Carrollton township, the daughter of David McCain. Mrs. Landes was
also a teacher in the district schools. She has borne her husband one child,
Jessie E., who was graduated from the common schools, Flora high school and
Franklin College. Jessie E. Landes is a teacher and has taught in the high
schools at Young America and Wheeling, where she was instructor in Latin and
botany.

   Aside from the one hundred and sixty acre farm which Mr. Landes owns, Mrs.
Landes also owns a farm of forty acres.

   Both Mr. and Mrs. Landes were capable and successful school teachers. Mr.
Landes has a record of being an enterprising and prosperous farmer. More than
that he is an able and popular trustee of Carrollton township. The Landes family
are members of the Baptist church. Mr. Landes is a deacon and trustee of the
church. He is identified with the Republican party.


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Biographical Section of

HISTORY OF CARROLL COUNTY INDIANA

ITS PEOPLE, INDUSTRIES AND INSTITUTIONS
BY
JOHN C ODELL
With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and
Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families

ILLUSTRATED
1916
B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY, Inc.
Indianapolis, Indiana


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